At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.

The practice of mindfulness is the practice of being alive in the present moment.

The development of wisdom requires both study and practice, both learning and direct experience.

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

Meditation is not about achieving anything. It's about letting go of everything.

The purpose of life is to be happy, to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is not to be well known, cited, or powerful.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

In the moment of love, awareness is very strong. Use that awareness, that strength of consciousness, to look into yourself.

Even if you speak of 'understanding,' this understanding is not a matter of knowledge. It is what fills the entire body and mind.

The yogi's joy is in the solitude of mountains, where all distractions naturally dissolve into emptiness.

The three characteristics - impermanence, suffering, and non-self - are not philosophical concepts but aspects of experience to be directly observed.

The nature of mind is like a mirror. It is not affected by whatever appears in it, yet it never fails to reflect everything perfectly.

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

Emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is the space of possibility.

Study the Buddha's teaching which is present in every moment.

The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.

Meditation is not about getting away from it all. It's about getting into it all.

Our true nature is like a diamond - pure, brilliant, and indestructible. No matter how much dirt covers it, its essential nature remains unchanged.

To what shall I compare this life? It is like a boat that left at dawn, leaving no trace.

Wisdom arises when you see the true characteristics of phenomena through direct experience.

Recognize the emptiness of all phenomena, but do not become attached to emptiness itself.

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

Better to have one moment of genuine meditation than to perform religious activities for a thousand years.

The ultimate revolution is the spiritual revolution, where we learn to see reality as it truly is.

If I had any position, I would thereby have a flaw. But since I have no position, I alone am without flaw.

Our task is not to seek for love but to find all the barriers within ourselves that we have built against it.

If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look into your present actions.

In Zen there must be satori; there must be a general mental upheaval which destroys the old accumulations of intellection and lays down the foundation for a new life.

Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.

The snow lion stays in the mountains, and the snow lion's ways are the snow lion's ways.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.